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    Yasna, I. (2022). Forms of contemporary public philosophical discourse. Part 2. Expert opinion, practice, therapy, leisure. Grani, 25(3), 16-24.

    https://doi.org/10.15421/172231

    The paper continues the study of forms of modern public philosophical discourse. The author carries out an analytical review and offers the way of classification of formats of modern philosophizing outside universities and the academic sphere. The topic is s relevant in the context of the rapid development of new formats of philosophizing in the second decade of the 21st century; subjects of this philosophizing are both academic philosophers and the general non-professional public. The result of this, the second part of the study was the analysis of such forms of modern public philosophizing as explanation and expert thought, therapy, leisure and entertainment. The tendency of "philosophizing" of culture as the penetration of elements of philosophical discourse into everyday life and language is considered separately.

    The conclusions confirm the generalizations made in the first part of the article: 1) considered forms of public philosophical discourse, despite the apparent novelty, are modifications of classical forms of philosophizing, and therefore, publicity is rather an immanent feature of philosophy than a specific trend of nowadays; 2) an important sign of modern public philosophical discourse, which distinguishes it from the public philosophizing of previous periods, is that the general public is becoming its subjects along with professional philosophers; 3) non-academic philosophizing is being professionalized and institutionalized within a process of mutual penetration of academic and public discourses of philosophy, that changes both of them. The author emphasizes that the described situation includes both new perspectives and new risks for philosophy that may be associated, in particular, with profanation and simplification of philosophical knowledge, the dissemination of inaccurate information. A possible range of tasks for further research in this direction of the public philosophical discourse is proposed at the end of the paper.

    Key words: public philosophy, philosophy in the public sphere, philosophy in the public space, public philosophical discourse, public turn, public sphere, popular philosophy.

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    Yasna, I. (2022). The binary opposition "light-heavy" as a metaphor for historical types of societies. Current Problems of Philosophy and Sociology, 34, 30-36. 

    https://doi.org/10.32837/apfs.v0i34.1073

    The article deals with metaphorical opposition "light-heavy" which the author proposes to use to characterize historical types of societies: from traditional (agrarian and pre-industrial) to modern (industrial and post-industrial). The author realizes the conceptual analysis of the "light-heavy" opposition based on philosophical and literary works of the XIX-XXI centuries (in English, French, Czech, German, Ukrainian and Russian), as well as modern phraseology within different discourses: philosophic, literary, religious, mass culture and popular discourse, and literature, as well as everyday phraseology (Slavic languages). The author performs a comparative conceptual analysis of the "light-heavy" opposition based on modern phraseology within different discourses: religious, discourse of mass culture and popular literature, as well as "folk", "household" (proverbs, idioms), which allowed to explore differences in the interpretation of these concepts in the considered types of discourse, as well as identified literary and phraseological examples of their use to characterize traditional and modern societies.

    The study shows the adequacy of the opposition "light-heavy" as a metaphor for traditional and modern ways of perceiving the world, as well as metaphors of traditional and modern societies, which can be described as "light" and "heavy" societies. The conclusions substantiate the effectiveness of using this "light-heavy" opposition to understand the cultural differences of traditional (agrarian and pre-industrial) and modern (industrial and post-industrial) societies. In this case, the metaphorical opposition "light-heavy" is proposed to be understood as a continuum of states from "light" to "heavy", where the traditional agrarian society is on the pole of "heaviness" as extremely "heavy"; postmodern, post-information society on the opposite pole of "lightness" and even "superlightness"; and the modern industrial society is between them as "light", but in many respects still quite "heavy".

    Key words: traditional and modern societies, post-traditional society, agrarian society, industrial society, post-industrial society, modern, modernity, postmodernism, lightness-heaviness, light-heavy, conceptual analysis, conceptual metaphor, metaphorical opposition.

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    Yasna, I. (2021). Forms of contemporary public philosophical discourse. Part 1. Literature, media, dialogue, education. Grani, 24(12), 94-105.

    https://doi.org/10.15421/1721124

    The paper is the first part of the study of forms of modern public philosophical discourse. The author carries out an analytical review and offers the way of classification of formats of modern philosophizing outside universities and the academic sphere. The topic is s relevant in the context of the rapid development of new formats of philosophizing in the second decade of the 21st century; subjects of this philosophizing are both academic philosophers and the general non-professional public. The study was conducted utilizing a wide range of factual material that had not previously been presented in scientific periodicals or media, namely expert interviews with academic philosophers who are involved in public discourse, the author's own experience of cooperation with domestic platforms for public philosophizing, materials of the First All-Ukrainian Competition of Philosophical Startups and relevant examples from modern world practice and the history of philosophical thought.

    The conducted research had led to the classification of the forms of modern public philosophical discourse in accordance with what social needs they satisfy or with what forms of culture they border on, namely literature and media, oral speech and dialogue, education and upbringing, expert opinion and explanation, everyday practice and a set of tools, therapy, entertainment, and leisure. The author concludes that 1) considered forms of public philosophical discourse, despite the apparent novelty, are modifications of classical forms of philosophizing, and therefore, publicity is rather an immanent feature of philosophy than a specific trend of nowadays. At the same time, modern information and communication technologies and media not only contribute to the emergence of new modern formats of philosophizing, but also lead to the revival of its oral, dialogical forms, which have taken a backseat due to inventing of writing and book printing: 2) an important sign of modern public philosophical discourse, which distinguishes it from the public philosophizing of previous periods, is that the general public is becoming its subjects along with professional philosophers.

    Key words: public philosophy, philosophy in the public sphere, philosophy in the public space, public philosophical discourse, public turn, public sphere, popular philosophy.

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    Yasna, I. (2019). The First All-Ukrainian Contest of Philosophical Startups. Philosophical Thought, No. 1, 40-59.

    https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/view/341

    Analytical report on the First All-Ukrainian Contest of Philosophical Startups, designed to draw attention to public forms of philosophical discourse and communication that go beyond the established institutional academic formats (official university education, academic research institutions in the field of philosophy, etc.). The first results and observations on the forms, subjects, directions of work and problems faced by modern Ukrainian projects of public philosophizing are given.

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    Yasna, I. (2018). Philosophical journal in the mirror of statistics: 2009–2017 (extended analytical report). Philosophical Thought Extended Electronic Version, 2018-02-16. 

    http://journal.philosophy.ua/article/nid7702-99

    This extended analytical report presents the results of the quantitative analysis of the journal "Philosophical Thought" issues from 2009 to 2017. The analysis was performed on 32 indicators that characterize demographic, geographical and academic composition of the author's circle, structural and thematic dimensions of the content of the journal, as well as the effectiveness of its distribution among readers. The analysis made it possible to record a number of trends in the development of the journal, to compare these data with indicators of the previous decade, as well as to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of modernization of the magazine, which was carried out during the study period.

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    Yasna, I. (2017). Philosophical periodicals in the opinion of professional community. Philosophical Thought, № 6, 14-37.

    https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/view/307

    The author presents the results of the survey of Ukrainian academic philosophers concerning condition of philosophical periodicals in Ukraine. The subject matter includes: respondents’ vision of the most known, widely-read and high-quality journals; their vision of Ukrainian philosophical press’ weaknesses; attitude to the notion of “fakhovyi” (professional) journal and practices of real and formal reviewing; preferable formats (paper, electronic) and ways of obtaining academic periodicals (subscription, retail purchasing, using libraries etc.

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    Yasna, I. (2017). Philosophical journal in the mirror of statistics: 2009–2017. Philosophical Thought, No. 6, 56-75.

    https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/view/309

    The article presents the results of quantitative analysis of issues of the journal "Philosophical Thought" from 2009 to 2017. The analysis was performed on 32 indicators that characterize demographic, geographical and academic composition of the author's circle, structural and thematic dimensions of the content of the journal, as well as the effectiveness of its distribution among readers. The analysis made it possible to record a number of trends in the development of the journal, to compare these data with indicators of the previous decade, as well as to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of modernization of the magazine, which was carried out during the study period.

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    Yasna, I. (2017). Semantic dimension of social conflict: thesauri as a research tool. Philosophical Thought, No. 2, 57-72.

    https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/view/275

    The article continues the series of research, which aims to determine specific features of contemporary social conflicts and to develop relevant research methodology. The author proposes an object for such research (semantic dimension of conflicts) and a subject (semantic space as an area of semantic confrontation) and proposes to apply methods of cultural semantics to investigate it. Besides, creating thesauruses of social conflicts may be useful, while we understand thesaurus as a linguistic form of existence of cultural senses. Also, the author gives a brief review of 70 thesauruses of 11 social conflicts (including contemporary Ukrainian conflict) which have been published since early 1900s.

    Keywords: semantics of event, semantics of social conflicts, semantic dimensions of social conflict, semantic wars, semantic confrontation, thesaurus of social conflict, dictionary of revolution, cultural semantics, social semantics, linguistic theory of conflict.

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    Yasna, I. (2017). The “public turn” and philosophy in the public space. Philosophical Thought, No. 1, 28-41.

    https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/view/263

    The paper starts a series of articles which are aimed to discover different dimensions of philosophy in the public space. The author analyses the Public turn which occurs in social and human sciences in the early 2000s and analyses its prerequisites and consequences. The typical process of institutionalization of “public” forms of social sciences and humanities and as well as features of this process in the field of philosophy is depicted. A brief digest of existing research and the scope of popular interpretations of public philosophy are presented. Finally, the author proposes a draft of an action program which may be implemented to develop this type of philosophical activity in Ukraine.

    Key words: public turn, turn to public, public philosophy, public humanities, public intellectuals, public space, public discourse, institutionalization of academic disciplines.

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    Yasna, I. (2016). (Post)modern social conflicts: looking for the concept. Philosophical Thought, No. 4, 104–117.

    https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/view/28

    The article opens a set of publications aiming to discover the essence of contemporary social conflicts which “migrate” from the material plane to the informational (symbolic, semantic etc.) plane, and to find out relevant methods of research and regulation of such conflicts. We assume, that the semantic space or dimension of social conflict must be the main subject of postmodern theories of conflict. Thus, we have to raise the question of the suitability of existing concepts and methodologies for such analysis. To get an answer, we review methodological changes which take place in humanities and social sciences since the last third of the twentieth century within a set of paradigmatic «turns». This excursion lets us make a conclusion that the process of renewal of theoretical and methodological approaches in conflict studies goes on much slower than similar changes in neighbouring research areas. To fill this methodological gap, modern researchers of social conflicts should pay more attention to linguistic, semiotic, hermeneutic and other methodological approaches which can provide a basis for postnonclassical methodology of social conflicts research. It lets us consider that social conflict arises in unusual perspectives: as a sign system, discourse, event, space, game, carnival, ritual, the collision of possible worlds etc. Ukraine, which is currently going through a unique experience of such a new kind of war, which can be described as “notional” or “semantic”, may become one of the flagships in the creation of such methodology.

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    Yasna, I. (2016). New media during the Euromaidan and after: an incentive for democratization or a security threat? Forum of Recent Eastern European History and Culture, No. 1, 45-60.

    https://www1.ku.de/ZIMOS/forum/inhaltruss25.html

    The author analyses the essence of modern wars, which are called wars of words, meanings, metaphors, as well as semantic, conceptual, psychological wars, etc. on the example of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, and examines the role of modern communication technologies, including social networks, for the events on the Independence Square, Kyiv (called the Euromaidan) at the end of 2013. The author claims that even two years after the Euromaidan, new media continue to play a crucial role both in the Russian-Ukrainian war and in the development of Ukrainian identity. According to the author's thought, information, and communication technologies, like any powerful tool, can bring both benefits (awakening and development of national identity and subjectivity of Ukrainians) and threats (as a potential tool for information attacks and even the emergence of authoritarian regimes).

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    Yasna, I. (2015). Does Ukrainian philosophy need a "rebranding"? Philosophical thought, No. 6, 23-39.

    https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/view/188

    Results of the first stage of the "Rebranding of Philosophy" initiative aimed to explore how to implement the philosophical component into modern Ukrainian education at the lyceum level. The initiative was launched on my ambition and realized under my leadership at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with the support of the Ukrainian Philosophical Foundation, participation of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and media support of the scientific-theoretical journal "Philosophical thought". The article contains systematized conclusions from my series of analytical interviews with leading Ukrainian philosophers and educators on the general modernization of Ukrainian philosophical education and education.

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    Yasna, I. (2014). Subjective paradigm as the basis of a modern approach to education. Bulletin of Donetsk National University, No 1-2, 509–514.

    The author proposes the concept of "subject education" as one that contributes to forming of two features: subjectivity as freedom of thought and subjectivity as freedom of action.  This approach contributes to the formation of European consciousness, a specific feature of which is the interpretation of man as a "subject".  As the main components of the "subject" the author singles out subjectivity (as a purely European interpretation of cognition) and subjectity (as a specific understanding of the place and role of man in the world).  Accordingly, the components of subject education are philosophy (which develops subjectivity) and the basics of entrepreneurship (which contributes to subjectity).  The project can be implemented through the cooperation of leading academic institutions in the field of philosophy and business education, with the involvement of successful practitioners - current businessmen, politicians, and public figures.

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    Yasna, I. (2014). The man in search of subjectivity: between everyday life and... Donetsk Bulletin of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Vol. XXXIX. Philosophy.  Pedagogy.  Methodology. 84-92.

    The article presents the ontological interpretation of the category "subjectivity" as a fundamental philosophical category, the content of which determines the contours and structure of the ontological model of the world.

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    Kyselova, Y. (2013). From “subject” and “subjectivity” to “subjectity”: an attempt of terminological analysis. Epistemological Studies in Philosophy, Social and Political Sciences, 2(23), 135-140.

    https://visnukpfs.dp.ua/index.php/PFS/article/view/498

    The actual contemporary problem of the «crisis of the European subject» is largely caused by several terminological inaccuracies which require a number of clarifications. In particular, the term «subjectivity» should be added to the philosophic vocabulary and vocabularies of other humanities and social sciences and a clear distinction between the concepts of «subjectivity» and «subjectity» should be determined. These two terms should characterize the two qualities, two abilities of a subject – cognitive capacity and agency. It also seems useful to transfer the research interest from the static category «subject», fixing a particular historical type of «subject» – the European subject of the age of Modernity, to the dynamic category that points to the very quality of being a subject and can vary from age to age. The term «subjectity» seems to be the most suitable term for this.
    There is also a need to overcome the dissociation of the field of values of the «subject» term by combining its epistemological, anthropological, and sociological aspects in a general structure of subjectity which thus determines his ability to be the subject of cognition, action and interaction and can be considered as system specifications of the person and society. The structure of subjectity includes three elements (modes): subjective (epistemological dimension of subjectity), intrasubjective (anthropological dimension) and intersubjective (social dimension). Taken together these three modes of subjectity form the fourth (ontological) mode of subjectity, which also determines the three relevant areas of the reflection about the subject and transfuses all levels of individual and social life.
    The type of subjectity differs from age to age and from culture to culture, so it can serve as a criterion of periodization of historical ages and be the basis for a typology of cultural systems, reducing them to a «common denominator». The synthesis of epistemological, anthropological and sociological aspects of the interpretation of subjectity allows considering it as the system characteristics of the man and the society.